the future of plagiarism

Justin Schwartz jkschw at hotmail.com
Wed Jun 26 14:57:36 PDT 2002



>
>Plagiarism is pretty much de rigueur in law. I'll take propositions
>from cases word for word, no quotes, though with a cite, and plug 'em
>in. jks
>
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>
>Yeah. I was going to bring this up. Peter B. Mosk's clerk was very
>proud of the times his work was incorporated into opinions or on the
>rare occasion Mosk gave most of the job to him---obviously under
>review and approval. But it alway went out of course under Mosk's
>name.

Oh, that wasn't the kind of plagiarism I meant. I wrote opinion drafts, and sometimes they go out as is under the judge's name. But believe you me. shedoes what hse is paid to do, exercising judgment in deciding the cases! What I meant was that in legal writing it's not uncommon for lawyers, judges, law clerks, etc., to simple take over thw language of some case. You leavea cite, but no quotation marks.


>
>And then there is science where the whole issue of science where the
>author is a list of co-workers.
>

Yeah, I could tell stories that I at least find shocking.

jks

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